The record’s first single, "Inside a Boy", will be released to all digital service providers TODAY, May 6th. The release includes the track, a beatbox-driven fantasy rock song called “I Had a Pearl,” and remixes of two tracks from A Thousand Shark’s Teeth.
Tracklisting for “Inside A Boy” digital single:
1. Inside A Boy (album version)
2. I Had A Pearl
3. Black and Costaud - Tim Fite redux
4. Inside A Boy - Son Lux remix
Listen to "Inside a Boy" on myspace or buy the single on iTunes.
posted May 6, 2008
Album Pre-Order
A Thousand Shark’s Teeth is now available for pre-order at Secretly Canadian. If you pre-order the CD or LP, you'll receive a download code for a fully realized collection of alternate versions of A Thousand Shark's Teeth, in addition to one album outtake. Orchestrated and complex, yet spacious and direct, these versions are a rewarding listen for the opportunity to hear how the songs have grown into their final form. Link to PREORDER.
Tracklisting for A Thousand Shark’s Teeth downloadable Bonus EP:
1. Apples (alternate version)
2. Bass Player (alternate version)
3. To Pluto's Moon (alternate version)
4. If I Were Queen (alternate version)
5. The Diamond (alternate version)
6. Music Box (outtake)
posted May 6, 2008
New Tour Dates
My Brightest Diamond will be playing a select run of West Coast shows with Pedestrian, in addition to her own very special East Coast shows. Upcoming Tour Dates…
5/20/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Café (w/ Pedestrian)
5/21/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Café (w/ Pedestrian)
5/23/08 Saratoga, CA @ Monalva Arts Center (w/ Noe Venable)
5/24/08 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (w/ Pedestrian and A Weather)
5/27/08 Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
6/09/08 New York, NY @ Other Music Instore
6/14/08 Hultsfred, Sweden @ Hutlsfred Festival
6/17/08 New York, NY @ Blender Theatre at Gramercy (BIG record release show!)
6/20/08 Boston, MA @ Berklee Performance Center (w/ Clare and the Reasons)
6/27/08 Evreux, France @ Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats
posted February 27, 2008
EH, HEM... A SHARK ANNOUNCEMENT
My Brightest Diamond announces the birthdate of the new album, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, June 17th on Asthmatic Kitty Records! We have some fun Shark surprises planned for you as we draw near to the date! In the meantime, to read the full press release check it out HERE!
posted February 24, 2008
photo by Matt Wignall. MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND ON INDIE EAR
IFC has just launched a new independent music blog they're calling Indie Ear. Spearheaded by Jim Shearer, formerly of MTV's 120 Minutes and Subterranean, the site looks very promising. Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond inaugurates its Q&A section, wherein Shearer grills Shara on cheerleading, stage costumes, and being mistaken for a hiphop DJ. You can visit Indie Ear HERE, and read the interview with Shara HERE.
DIAMOND ON DVD
My Brightest Diamond makes an appearance on the new Asthmatic Kitty DVD release featuring videos- Freak Out! Live @ Northsix, Dragonfly, Gone Away and Magic Rabbit. For more info see the KITTY.
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND TO PLAY SXSW
Diamond string quartet formation will be playing the Asthmatic Kitty Showcase!
Friday March 14 2008
at the Central Presbyterian Church
200 E. 8th St, Austin TX 78701
8PM - Tristan Perich (Cantaloupe Music)
9PM - Doveman (Brassland)
10PM - Clare and the Reasons (Frog Stand Records)
11PM - Cryptacize
12AM -My Brightest Diamond
1AM- Castanets
Shara will also be playing solo at the Paste-Stereogum Lounge at Volume (612 6th Street) on Thursday March 13 from 12-12:40pm.
Shara plays a bunny rabbit in the animation "Dont Smash" by Tom Eaton.
Go to the dvd party on Smilefaucet party on March 21st at Fontana¹s Bar in the Lower East Side.
What else you been up to baby?
December: Drawing!
December: My parents argue over a chord progression while I try to play my new ukelele.
January: Touring Australia and Japan with St. Vincent joining us for Freak Out!
February: Singing at Carnegie Hall singing with Sufjan and Ray Davies.
(pictures stolen from pitchfork)
More February: Diamond opens for The National at BAM! New clothes made by the amazing Caroline McAlister!
Ladders created by the mind and hands of A Bogs!
(pictures stolen from pitchfork)
posted December 17, 2007
MBD in studio with the string octet! Recording recording recording!
Alex engineers! Alice the bunny listens to music. Annie and Shara are in rehearsals for upcoming tour!
Merry Christmas everyone! If you need a new Christmas mix, go HERE!
posted November 21, 2007
We admit, we are a little late at announcing our own news, but to promote the now completed Eleven Fingered Tailor Tour, MBD gave away three demo tracks from Bring Me The Workhorse:
Something of an End live: 2 days after it was written, Shara performed the song solo at Club Dada in Dallas, Texas. January 2004.
Freak Out demo: Recorded in July 2004 at The Museum of Disembodied Folk Art (MODFA) in Brooklyn, just before the first tracks of Bring Me The Workhorse were layed down in Los Angeles.
Freak Out string demo: This one is only available for listening on the VenusZine radio during the month of November. There were two recording sessions of strings before Shara went to LA to start recording Workhorse. We thought those sessions would be the backbone of A Thousand Sharks Teeth, but ah not so. Anyway, they represent more experiments in string arranging, some successful and some less so. Here is one that was less successful, but perhaps, amusing.
In other news-that-has-been-posted-everywhere-else-but-here: My Brightest Diamond will finally be flying to Australia and Japan for a tour this January.
Here's our favorite pics from the Eleven Fingered Tailor Tour with Tim Fite. Is it a horrific murder tale or is it only a case of missing glasses? You decide. Photobooth at the Drake Hotel in Toronto Canada.
Hey look, we have this crazy Eleven Fingered Tailor thing attached to the Rhodes. You can bring more loot to attach to it when you come to the show! Or if you don't know how to ride a bike, Tim Fite might teach you. See he teaches girls to ride bikes after the show in Louisville, Kentucky!
Tim Fite and MBD have chair derbies before the show in Columbus, Ohio!
posted November 6, 2007
Album news: The debonair clarinetist, producer,arranger, songwriter, haircomposer, Feists SNL banjo-player, Sebastian Krueger, stopped by this week to lay down some hot jams on the new MBD album. Here Sebastian gives a detailed tour of the studio, showing you all the ins and outs of our elaborate space: isolation booth A, the control room, the backup drives and old reel to reel material and the secret location of the files for the new record...
Oh no, Mrs. Tittlemouse's brother has come to live in my pantry!! I guess he heard that we had caught Mrs. Tittlemouse last week, and assumed that our pantry was available for habitation. How does word travel so fast?
On the tour front, yesterday was the big rehearsal for the NY Blender Theater show. Osso, Nathan Lithgow (bass), Brian Wolfe (drums) and I all piled into the rehearsal space, then played our little hearts and ears out. Here's a quiet one. See?
posted October 31, 2007
Trick or Treat! Our friend and tour buddy, the inimitable Tim Fite is giving away his new Halloween album for one day only!! one one one day only! Download it from his site! That's Fite! That means you have til the stroke of midnight to download this record! Download! It's scary, it's amazing, it will make you shake in your boots! Download it now and watch the vampires come out!
posted October 30, 2007
In album news: More, more, more recordings are being made! The dashing and talented Ben Lanz came over to the MBD studios (um I mean my kitchen!) to lay down some slammin trombone tracks for "Shark's Teeth" this week. You might have seen Ben play with MBD in Paris... During our recording, we had a little distraction from the small mouse who had decided to live in my pantry. (I am happy to report, that today the mouse was caught inside one of Alice the bunny's cardboard tubes and released in the park next door! I am convinced she was really Mrs. Tittlemouse!)
In recording journeys this week, I also traveled all the way to 55th street and 27th Avenue in Manhattan, going to Carroll studios where I marveled as Thomas Kozumplik assembled his marimba. You may be familiar with Thom through the fantabulous chamber music group Clogs. Oooooo! The inside guts of the marimba looked like alligator teeth and the wooden bars clinked like bones! Down the hallway, in another "rehearsal room", there was a group of people who were watching home videos then dancing to techno music. I couldn't tell if it was a family reunion or a leopard print festival. Everyone was speaking russian, so I tried my skills, "pazhalista, techa!" (which means politely, please shut up! I'm working here people!). Still the high heels clicked loudly down the hallway, and cell phone conversations rose in volume right outside our door. Inside, Thom was playing the very quietest marimba music that has ever been played in the history of the world, so this made our recording process particularly challenging. Well, we can say, that techno certainly will be underscoring "Shark's Teeth". Wonderful! A subversive dance album.
I'm exploding with news and more bad videos! For the Pantouf and Alice report, I am happy to share with you that today the bunnies moved in to each others apartments and ate each others food! I'm not sure what this means but I think it's a good sign for future romance. Pantouf got the loin snip only a week ago, so we have been gradually introducing them to one another as his hormones calm down. Truthfully, I will tell you that this pairing, is largely to assuage my guilt for being on tour so much and leaving Alice. (For those of you just joining in, Pantouf was recently found under a friend's car and rescued from the risk of becoming dog food!) Anyway, Pantouf is full of curiosity and mischief, and most certainly keeps Alice's mind occupied, so I shall feel slightly less remorse at leaving her next week for our east coast tour.
posted October 26, 2007
Shara is caught on camera doing an acapella version of Nina Simone's "Be My Husband" in the garden at La Maroquinerie in Paris on October 2, 2007.
posted October 24, 2007
NEW RECORD REPORT: MBD is still busy in the studio working on the album, "A Thousand Shark's Teeth". This week special guests popped into the studio for some fantabulous playing- Rachael Elliot of Clogs gorgeously floating on bassoon and Maeve Gilchrist playing a mean harp. Sorry we don't have more video footage to show you, but this will give you a hint! MBD might dabble in the classical world, but let there be no doubt of our love for rock. oh! And we are happy to report that the bunny Pantouf made it through the snip surgery very well. He is recuperating peacefully at home.
posted October 15, 2007
Oh my gosh oh my gosh! Finally, at last, we can't believe this really happened!?!? Osso, Nathan Lithgow and I (shara) were finally able to record (or in some cases, re-record) songs for "Shark's Teeth"! Having lived with this music for several years, you can't imagine what a relief and joy it was to finally commit to some recordings. A delightful day. We began at 10 a.m., recorded two songs, ate sushi for lunch, then recorded some more! David Stith dropped in and worked on drawings for the album art! He was working with his spelunking light on.
posted October 14, 2007
In "Shark's Teeth" news: the recordings continue! What an exciting week in MBD land! Adam Matta, beatbox extraordinaire came over and layed down some fat beats. Wanna see? Here it comes!
posted October 12, 2007
On Friday the 12th, Pantouf came home to meet lady love, Alice! After the string quintet rehearsal I went to pick up Pantouf (no longer called "bun-bun") from his foster family. I filmed the bunnies first nose sniffing! Grab a cup of tea and sit for three minutes of quiet greeting. Thus far, guitar phobias have not come into play for Pantouf thankfully. He does enjoy a good kale and seizes carrots faster than Bugs Bunny. Next week he gets the ultimate loin snip, so we'll let you know how things go once these two love buns are no longer separated by the cage wire.
posted October 9, 2007
An update from Shara:
Hello friends! We have arrived home, safe and sound from our great adventures in the European abroad. Now I am home with the gorgeous face of that bunny, Alice, who often invites me to sit on the floor with her for long spells. Alice told me she has been lonely and is rather tired of all my traveling. While there have been many wonderful and exotic people to care for her in my absence, she wishes they were a little more fuzzy. As fate would have it, I received an email from a friend of mine, Jess, who said that a small domestic bunny had come to live under the car in her driveway. She asked me if I needed another rabbit. I said, yes indeed, for it seems that Alice is pining away, dissolving into a thin waif, and some more company would cheer her. The rescue rabbit, temporarily named "bun-bun", was taken in by a kindly couple in the neighborhood. Two days ago, I went to meet "bun-bun" at his foster home in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. He is a charmer, dashing in his permanent black and white tuxedo. Smart, witty, affectionate and polite, I believe that his desire for snuggling might produce a splendid match for my dear Alice. There are presently only a few concerns- his raging hormones and the fact that he is scared to death of guitars. One of those issues can be taken care of in a matter of minutes. The other could be a little more problematic. Will the pairing of the bunnies be destiny or disaster? The saga of Alice and "bun-bun" the rescue bunny, will be continued... In the meantime, turn up Radiohead.
posted October 1, 2007
MBD rocked Manchester's City Centre Social on Wednesday, September 25, 2007!
posted September 8, 2007
TWO NEW RECORD RELEASES!!!
Our dear friends in the string quartet Osso , violist Marla Hansen and violinist Olivier Manchon with Clare and The Reasons, are both releasing records within the same week! That's THIS week! Both bands will be playing back to back an instore tonight at SoundFix in
Brooklyn, NY. The love is palpable. CD release parties abound next week so please come by for your listening pleasure. On Marla's album, Miss Shara sings some background vocals too.
Clare and The Reasons
September 10, 2007 at JOES PUB
Lafayette St, NY, New York 10014
Clare and the Reasons CD’s release party at Joes Pub with a double size string section!
Marla Hansen- cd release party
September 11, 2007 at Union Hall
Brooklyn, NY
posted September 2, 2007
Update from Shara:
It's Sunday night. Nate and I flew home from Ireland today. I am quite tired. Rather than clean my dishes now, I have decided it would be more fun to watch a ferris wheel ride on my computer. Here it is, in case you need a dizzy-ing distraction to stay away from your dishes too. This Ferris Wheel was at Electric Picnic where we played yesterday and it was quite a nice ride, seeing the whole festival from that view, though I must say that for 5 euro, we only got two spins round. Energy conservation. Nate and I were discussing his 7 euro falafel incident.
In other news, recently I recorded for three days in Berlin with Earl Harvin, the drum tracks for the new MBD record. The sessions went really well. We recorded in this very special studio, the treehouse of the band Warren Suicide. Then I flew home to record with Clogs here in Brooklyn for a collection of Padma's songs called, The Creatures in Lady Walton's Garden. It was a great delight to work with them and to boot, I could bike to the studio from my house! I don't know when their album will be finished... but hopefully soon.
I decided to slag off a bit since the Clogs sessions didn't start until later in the day, so I finished reading Harry Potter V, then went to the movies to see it. The movie felt like chapter titles compared to the book! I got all choked up when they all took off on their brooms though. I wish I had a Firebolt. Then today I finished Harry Potter VI on the plane ride home and have to pick up VII tonight. Late bloomer to this addiction.
In listening news, I just got the new M.I.A. record which I am very much liking. I saw her perform at Lowlands, and she was fantastic. Crush!!! I also heard bits of the new Prince album...err, um, eek. Tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. or something dreadful, Nate and Brian and I fly to Seattle for Bumbershoot. We dash back home and I launch into writing as many string arrangements as I can cram into the waking hours of 3 days for a recording session with Osso. With that in mind, I should do my dishes now. I hope that you are well and finding your own magic.
posted August 29, 2007
Whilst at Lowlands Festival in Holland, Shara stopped by the pop up tent of RadioMad to do a solo performance. Ch-ch-ch-check it. Disappear. Golden Star
posted August 25, 2007
Daytrotter hosts a new section on their site called The Bookery where folks read from their favorite poems, novels, books, recipes and tv listings or whatever else they feel like reading to tape. Listen HERE to Shara reading from a collection of thoughts and stories by the amazing photographer Diane Arbus. "You might know Diane's pictures, or you might have heard of her from the recent movie “Fur” — Nicole Kidman played her character. Diane’s photographs are incredible and she often lectured at colleges ‘n such, so some of these paragraphs were taken from cassette tapes of her lectures and were collected as an introduction to one of her photography books. I just find her completely profound and articulate. She understood the human condition and the beauty of people in this really wonderful way. I could hardly read some of that stuff without crying. The last story gets me every time. It is so embracing of life. It speaks of accepting ourselves and being at peace, without ego or fear of rejection, and her telling of the story is so loving. Yeah for Diane and for art to bring us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the universe!”
posted August 3, 2007
Photo by OtterFreak taken on August 1st instore performance at Wordsmiths Books.
The incredible, the innumerable, the indivisible human beat boxer, Adam Matta, came over to my house a lil while ago to record on some top secret MBD material. While we were waiting for cds to burn, I picked up my video camera and asked Adam for a new MBD remix. This is what he had to say...
posted July 25, 2007
My Brightest Diamond recently covered the song "Naturally" for a compilation of Huey Lewis songs. (I know?!?! You'd never'uh thunk it.) Shara chose the most melancholy one she could find and made it as depressing as possible. Oh the irony. The compilation should be released officially sometime in '08. For now stream at myspace. These fabulous folks contributed loads: Sebastian Krueger - Bass Clarinet Marla Hansen - Viola bumble bees Nathan Lithgow - Bass
posted July 24, 2007
THE SPAIN REPORT: an incident of electricity
Shara (that's me), Nate and Brian recently rocked Spain's Summercase festival with such amazing power, if I might say so myself, that we shut down the entire power generator. Oh how fantastic, or rather, how completely embarrassing. So here is what happened during this clip from the Madrid show: During the second song, Robin's Jar, a cymbal fell off the drum riser and at the same instant all the power shut down. Confused, I moved in a panic to see if my guitar cords were at fault, then I resorted to the only remaining solution- jumping up and down as fast as possible. Brian took a drum solo to briefly turn the chaos into a dance party. After running out of moves, the band took refuge backstage. The tech team scrambled around trying to figure out what had happened, and realized that when the cymbal had fallen off, it had actually sliced into a main artery cord and thus tripped the whole system. Within 10 minutes we were back on stage for more jumping. Whew! Despite the power incident, playing the festival was an incredible experience. A marked weekend for all three of us. Part of what made the whole experience so memorable was hearing the other bands- The Gossip (holy cow, like listening to Tina Turner!), Air, Dragonette, DJ Shadow and Jesus and Mary Chain were some of the highlights. In Barcelona, we stayed up til dawn on the wings of the Chemical Brothers. Hooray!!! Thank you lovely Spain!
posted July 12, 2007
We recorded a version of Radiohead's Lucky for Stereogum's tribute to OK Computer's 10th year.
Check it out here.
Download the whole tribute album here.
posted July 3, 2007
My friend A. Bogs is a painter/musician/artist. A few summer's ago I recorded a bunch of stuff in A's basement which was then the Museum of Disembodied Folk Art (MODFA). A little while later A bought a house and needed to downsize so he was getting rid of a bunch of paintings. I grabbed as many as I could and made a mini MODFA in my apartment. Here is his painting of Allen Ginsberg which I particularly like.
posted July 2, 2007
I know I've said for quite some time that I was going to put out a chamber music album next.. and it's true that I have some string quartet songs that I've been stringing along like a boyfriend I can't let go of... well, I've been home now for about a month, recording cover songs for compilations and trying to finish this here album "A Thousand Shark's Teeth" and I have to say, I don't know what this little bugger is turning into?! I started with 8 old songs and I thought it would be so clear and direct to finish it, but it feels like trying to catch a shapeshifter late at night in the woods. I'm carrying around my flashlight and a fly catcher, hoping to bring this fairy home, but she keeps on changing. One minute she's one thing, the next minute she's something else altogether. Well, I'm just saying when I finally catch her, she might not look like what I thought. I thought you oughta be warned.
love, Shara
posted June 29, 2007
Last February, whilst on the road from Glasgow to Manchester (well, I realize this might seem like old news, but its taken me a long time to get that footage uploaded onto my computer, so now its kinda like new news), our dear bassist, Nathan Lithgow, was captured on film, having just purchased a Cadbury Cream Egg from a gas station, eating the whole egg in one glorious bite. You won't believe it until you see it. Please note: Nathan is wearing a tie. Man, he is so P.R.O.!
posted June 22, 2007
The lovely Mr. Murat Eyuboglu (who also directed the Magic Rabbit video) was lurking around the Bowery Ballroom when MBD opened for the National a few weeks ago and snapped some action packed photos. You may see more at Flickr.com!
posted May 29, 2007
Remember the Cincinnati Music Now Festival back in April? Well Vincent Moon, the incredible and ubiquitous French director of the Take Away Shows, made a beautiful film about the event. Follow the link to see Shara singing a song with Clogs called "The Owl of Love", then watch MBD in string quartet formation (the quartet has now been named Osso!!) perform a new song "Like a Sieve". You can hear Shara's soprano high notes blast the audio into crackles! We hope you enjoy the films!
posted May 22, 2007
Announcement, heh hum, announcement! Duh duh doo doooooo! Shara will tour with the fantabulous Rasputina this July! Shara will be playing the opening sets, solo (except for the LA show, where she will be rocking with Blair Bling on drums and Joey Sparx on bass)! It is going to be hot as all heck so take off your ball gowns and come in your corsets and other lacey underwears (circa 1890 please). Check the concerts page for dates.
See a higher quality version in quicktime format here.
posted April 24, 2007
While at The Paradiso in Amsterdam this last February, Shara was interviewed about her first song, teenage angst, songwriting, the name My Brightest Diamond, hidden beauty, and Prince. Also included is a solo performance of Something of an End.
Director Mark Schafer creates a short video for Stakka's "Disappear" remix! Check it out.
posted March 14, 2007
Shara performs at Tequila Mockingbird Studios in Austin, Texas for KCRW.com during the SXSW music festival with an interview by Chris Douridas. Shara performs the songs "Feelin' Good", "Something of an End", "Dragonfly", "Youkali" and "The Good and The Bad Guy". Click the picture or go to KCRW.com!!
posted March 8, 2007
This just in! Captured to tape by Vaj Potenza, you can watch Diamond Girl and The Sparklings deal judiciously with the nefarious Dr. Zircon to recover the world's largest diamond! Click the picture of Diamond Girl and the portal will open! In other news, Asthmatic Kitty is throwing an online party, or rather a half week love fest for My Brightest Diamond and the new record Tear It Down! Visit AK for exclusive items like, Shara's list of favorite electronic-ish music, the latest video uploads and tomorrow, an interview with Shara on the hows and whys of remixing. Click to The Kitty!
posted March 6, 2007
Our new remix record "Tear It Down" has been let out of the gates and is racing away! Remixers on "Tear It Down" include the likes of Alias, Lusine, Gold Chains, Stakka, Murcof and many more. Many of the remixers have snazzed up or stripped down the original song forms, while some have rearranged the melodies and the parts to create something entirely new, focusing on one element of the song and elaborating on that theme, rather than being bound to the storytelling of the original track. The remixes found on "Tear It Down" range from all over the globe (Belgium, France, Mexico, England, you name it!) and encompass many genres from glitchy ambient textures to get-your-booty-on-the-dance-floor club mixes (Shara will surely meet you there for that one). For more information click HERE or to purchase, go to Asthmatic Kitty!
posted February 26, 2007
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posted February 10, 2007
There are four new news items! Whew! So many announcements, so keep scrolling down!
While on tour last November, My Brightest Diamond took a short detour to the Daytrotter studios and recorded four songs live: Something of an End, Gone Away, Magic Rabbit and Freak Out. They are now posted for your download enjoyment along with an interview from Shara and Joel Shearer. For all you liner note readers, you might remember Joel's name because he engineered almost all of Bring Me The Workhorse. Joel was on tour with Shara as both part of MBD and as the ring leader for the opening band, Pedestrian. Free Download baby download!
Click a video to hear more clips from the new remix album Tear It Down with videos for Disappear by Jym Davis, Gone Away by Jonathan Dueck, and The Good and The Bad Guy by Adriana Schlarb.
Free download! Listen here to Alias' version of "Golden Star" and to Gold Chains' "Freak Out (Panique Mix)" from My Brightest Diamond's new record Tear It Down which features 13 different djs! For more album details click here!
On April 5-7, Shara Worden, of My Brightest Diamond, and Sufjan Stevens are particpating in the Bryce Dessner-curated Music Now 2007 festival. Bryce is best known as the guitarist for The National and his instrumental band Clogs, and for being born in Cincinatti, Ohio. Shara and Sufjan will be playing in the historic Memorial Hall, located in the even more historic Over-the-Rhine district of Cincinnatti. They won't be alone though. The two will be taking turns on the stage with the veritable likes of string quarter Amiina (of Sigur Ros fame), renowned flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, and experimental Czech duo Irena a Vojtech Havlovi. Shara will serve as guest vocalist for the Clogs and Sufjan. They'll even share a string quartet.
Passes for the entire festival cost only $60. Tickets to each individual performance will cost $25. The theater only seats 500, so watch the festival's website for ordering information.
posted January 19, 2007
Tour announcements!!! My Brightest Diamond announces a spring tour opening for the fantabulous indie band, The Decemberists. MBD will be touring as a rock trio and our inside reporters have heard rumors that the largest diamond in the world will also be on the tour (and we don't mean Neil Diamond, though through various channels Diamond Girl is pursuing Neil to become one of her super power friends.) Please see concerts for shedule details or click the picture! Shara will be taking a short hiatus from The Decemberists tour to sing with Clogs (April 5), and be performing a concert in string quartet formation (April 6th) at a festival in Cinncinati, Ohio (more details coming). In the February meantime, the MBD rock trio will be touring in Europe, so come wearing all your shiny baubles!!
posted January 9, 2007
In anticipation of the release of MBD's new remix album "Tear It Down", we want to give you a sneak peak, through sights and sounds. Europe release date: February 6th. USA release date: March 6th. Look HERE at the video created by Zack Bent!
posted January 1, 2007
When on tour with Devotchka this last December, Venus Magazine followed Shara and the boys around Chi-town for the day, a day full of adventure with Santa Clause(s) and photobooth pictures. Here's a photographic journal at Venus Mag!
posted December 5, 2006
Today marks the release of our first iTunes-only EP.
Embodied on the "EP" are 4 versions of "Disappear,"
together with a previously unreleased B-Side:
1) Disappear (Album Version)
2) The Lace Handkerchief
3) Disappear (String Quartet Version)
4) Disappear (Remix by Stakka)
5) Disappear (Remix by James McAlister)
My Brightest Diamond tours with Devotchka November 30th-December 11! Fellow New Yorkers Nate Lithgow, bass, and Dave Berger, drums, will team up with Shara for the power trio tour.
posted November 23, 2006
Ms. Shara Worden has been nominated for a Plug Award in the category of Female Artist of the Year. Please head on over to the Plug Awards website and cast your vote! A panel of independent music taste-testing bigwigs make the nominations, but the public cast the votes.
posted October 30, 2006
Having toured with Sufjan Stevens and most recently Jedi Mind Tricks, My Brightest Diamond breaks out on a headlining tour with LA band Pedestrian including guitarist Joel Shearer (who engineered "Bring Me The Workhorse") and keyboardist/guitarist Zac Rae (who played a couple pump organs for BMTWH!), drummer Blair Sinta and bassist Joe Karnes. Now hold on to your seats, because this will be the rockin-est My Brightest Diamond configuration you have yet seen! But we think the rock interpretation will be fun. Pedestrian is an amazing band, and in addition to playing with Shara in MBD, they also will play their own set, so please come early and make an evening of it. For dates see the concert page! If you happen to be at CMJ in New York this week, you can find MBD at The Rebel on Friday, with string quartet and band at 9pm!
posted September 5, 2006
Veteran underground rap crew Jedi Mind Tricks collaborate with Shara from My Brightest Diamond on their new track "Razorblade Salvation". Produced by Stoupe and spearheaded by lyricist Vinnie Paz, Shara went in the studio one Friday afternoon and wrote hooks for two songs which will appear on Jedi Mind Tricks' forthcoming fifth album, Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, due out September 19 on Babygrande Records. Listen here for a pitchfork exclusive preview : MP3
posted September 5, 2006
Yellow Bird Project asked Shara to draw a tee shirt design for the charity of her choice. Hooray for the flock of birds! Hooray for Road Recovery! Road Recovery is comprised of entertainment industry professionals whose lives have been touched by addiction and other adversities and now wish to make a positive impact on the lives of others. Shara has known members of the executive board of Road Recovery for many years and believes in their work, so she felt great about supporting them! You can support them too by purchasing a tee shirt.
posted August 16, 2006
Buy tickets for Spiegeltent. Check Spiegel website for more information on directions and what to wear for My Brightest Diamond's August 24th big tent CD release party! You may purchase your tickets now in an orderly fashion. Diamond plays at 10 p.m. and will playing songs from Bring Me The Workhorse. After the show, pass through the velvet curtains, give a penny to the bearded lady, then pick up a poster and a new cd!
posted July 27, 2006
photo by Sarah Small.
The new video for the song "Dragonfly" directed and edited by Andrew Rosas, has been made available through Pitchfork Media. "My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden tests her wings in the new video for "Dragonfly", flitting through the countryside while interpretive dancers in bug costumes leap, twirl, and plie. All of this feels ancient but familiar...a gothic dream of dancing dragonflies" You may watch it here:
Pitchfork Exclusive Dragonfly Video
posted July 23, 2006
Shara created a playlist for Kiss My Radio of some of her favorite songs and singers. You may listen from Sunday July 23rd - Sunday July 29th. Listen at http://kissmyradio.free.fr/ with selections by Scott Walker, Dayna Kurtz, Nina Simone and others!
posted July 19, 2006
New website for Spiegeltent with latest information about My Brightest Diamond's August 24th CD release party in the circus tent! You may purchase your tickets now in an orderly fashion.
posted July 14, 2006
My Brightest Diamond announces fall tour schedule!
We will be opening for Sufjan Stevens beginning September 11th, travelling from the east to west coast in a magic crochet tour bus. Joining the tour will be Bring Me The Workhorse's original string crew, Rob Moose, Marla Hansen and the lovely Maria Jeffers! Please get your tickets now, because Sufjan gives away free ice cream at all of his shows, and you know how the kids love free ice cream! He sells out venues fast! See the concert schedule for more details.
posted July 11, 2006
Listen to My Brightest Diamond today on WNYC's show Soundcheck at 2pm.
posted July 7, 2006
My Brightest Diamond to play Joes Pub next Friday, July 14th, at 9:30. Also, don't miss the cd release at Spiegeltent, Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan on August 24th. It will be one big circus party!
posted May 31, 2006
Bring Me The Workhorse, My Brightest Diamond's new shiny album, will be released August 22nd! Hooray!!! Bring Me The Workhorse track listing can be found on Asthmatic Kitty ! More shows in the US and in Europe being added so check it out!
posted March 19, 2006
My Brightest Diamond makes the New York Times art section for coverage of SXSW. See Shara's picture under Morrissey? "...enigmatic songs from My Brightest Diamond; its leader, Shara Worden, sang with velvety richness as she dispensed stark riffs and elusive memories."
posted February 9, 2006
Taking pictures with wings, editing videos that include shiny objects, dreaming videos with dance moves, and setting mastering dates for Bring me the Workhorse! In the meantime, if you are at SouthbySouthwest in Austin, come check out the show Wednesday March 15th at Emo's Annex.
posted February 7, 2006
Asthmatic Kitty releases compilation disc including MBD's Riding Horses!
posted January 27, 2006
If you are coming to the recital at Bloomingdale on February 3rd, please be advised that the correct starting time is SEVEN O'CLOCK, not eight as previously advertised.
posted January 22, 2006
Check out the new rehearsal videos!
posted January 2006
Shara plays a solo show at The Knitting Factory in NYC, Tuesday January 10th at 8pm. Shara also makes a guest performance in Chris Rael's Araby this month. Check Concerts for details!
posted December 2005
My Brightest Diamond begins preparation for their upcoming recital! They will be performing classical works that have inspired Shara's songwriting and arranging. Performance with string quartet, piano and voice. Songs by Purcell, Debussy and Weill and, oh yes, songs by My Brightest Diamond too, at no cost to you! Check concerts for more details.
posted November 2005
Back from the European tour and scheduled to make tea and sleep! MBD performs at the Living Room in New York City on the 15th & 29th of this month.
posted October 2005
Marla Hansen played viola with Kanye West on Saturday Night Live October 1st! Go Marla!
MBD set to open for Sufjan Stevens' European tour in October! Check the concerts section for more tour info. In album news, stiiiiill mixing!! Mixer Andrew Scheps is working hard!
posted September 2005
We just finished taping for the "Magic Rabbit" video, directed by Murat Eyuboglu. Documentarian Seth Lind has recently been following MBD around to get some good behind the scene footage just for YOU! So get ready. Slowly it comes.
We are MIXING the record "Bring Me The Workhorse"!!! Come see the show at The Living Room on June 19th at 7:30pm! If you miss the show, it will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland as hosted by Sxip Shirey. www.bbc.co.uk
posted May 2005
Watch My Brightest Diamond perform Kurt Weill's "Youkali" Tuesday, May 17th at 9pm on MNN, or streamed live at www.mnn.org!
This performance was taken from a concert at the Living Room last August that was a part of the HOWL festival, hosted by Chris Rael.
MBD continues to record for "Bring Me The Workhorse". Shara is scheduled to work with bassist Chris Bruce at Pedestrian Studios in LA in early May. On May 17th watch MBD on www.mnn.org! Rob Moose will be on tour with Antony & the Johnsons and you can catch Marla playing viola with Chris Rael at the Living Room on Sunday May 8th at 8pm.
posted March 2005
MBDs violinst/multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose is currently out on the road with the fantabulous and inspirational Antony & the Johnsons! Go see the show cause Antony is good! Shara returns from Houghton College in upstate New York where she recorded vibraphone, timpani, celesta and piano for "A Thousand Shark's Teeth" and also for "Bring me the Workhorse". See the new pics! Don't miss the show at The Living Room Friday April 8th at 8pm.
Welcome to My Brightest Diamond's new website! We used to be called Awry but we felt a whisper in the breeze saying "chaaaaange has come!" So we heeded the call. We are keeping the old Awry site, just like keeping pictures in an album, so if you want more historical information or have a nostalgic wave, you can always visit www.awrysense.com . It's now official!!
Shara is playing a solo show in New York at The Mercury Lounge on Sunday, March 6th. See concerts for more details.
My Brightest Diamond is still finishing their records, so in the meantime, browse, look, listen or send us an email to say "Hi, please hurry up with your recording". We like to hear from you!
